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Does anyone know of a canister filter that has the easy to remove/replace/clean feature of the Fluval G3/G6 filter, but without the fancy shmancy electronics? The ability to take replace or clean the media without even stopping the filter seems amazing, but I have no interest (or budget) for...

I guess the title is pretty self-explanatory (the top of the bag is above the water line) and this is my first experience with an HOB. Thanks!

I have a canister filter that is lousy with snails and I thought it might be a good idea to run a second filter on the tank for a bit so I could take the first filter off and give it a thorough cleaning that would likely kill all the bacteria. It is a 75-gallon tank. How long do you think I...

I have no power and a doa generator. I have water, so i can change the water daily, but what can i do for the water Temperature? I have a 75 gallon with gouramis, rainbows, loaches, angels, pictus, a rainbow shark and a blue crayfish. I am afraid they are all going to die of cold and am...

I am about one year into a freshwater 75g aquarium. For the first 10 months or so I needed to use CO2 to bring down tap water with a pH in the mid to high 7s down into the mid to high 6s. For the last month or so, I have been getting very acidic readings a week after water changes despite tap...

I have three gouramis -- a male three-spot and opaline and gold females. The blue and golds are a little older than the opaline. The blue was always the biggest of the three, but now he is clearly the smallest. I can't tell if this is a case of the females outgrowing him or him being...

I have a half-black angel that got pretty beat up about three weeks ago. He seems to be making a slow and steady recovery - his feeler fins were lost and are starting to come back-- but over the last 24 hours I have noticed he likes wedging himself into tight spots -- behind ornaments, between...

I have 2 females that have been with me for a while and seem to be doing well. However, their coloration changes quite frequently, ranging from the dull rainbow I expected from females to a very pale yellow. I keep thinking that they must not be well, but the next time I look they have the...

I have a 75g tank that has largely been free of behavior problems. In 7 months of having this tank, I have not seen a single fish with any signs of physical stress/physical bullying. A lot of chasing (especially the rainbow shark and the blue gourami), but no physical harm. However, today (in...

I have a half black angel that is about silver dollar sized and 4-5 months old (I think). When I got him, there was was very little orange coloring but now he has gotten a decent amount of orange on his top half, including a streak in his dorsal fin. He seems otherwise fine. Is this anything...

I've had 3 yoyo loaches for almost 8 months and rarely saw any of them get anywhere near the top of the tank. Last week I read a description of the Yoyos that said they are great jumpers and frequently jump out of tanks. I remember thinking that that seemed so unlikely with my guys. Well, I...

My tank is six months old and doing well after some fits and starts, but I am still having a hard time figuring out what exactly I should be adding to my tank on a regular basis. It is a 75g freshwater tank with 3 angels, 3 yoyo loaches, 5 rainbows (3 turquoise, 2 boesemani), 3 gouramis, a...

I have a fine brown algae-like growth on most of my ornaments and fake plants. I think they are diatoms. I added a phosphate filter media and a UV sterilizer, but it doesn't seem to be helping. Phosphate levels are 0.25. When I first added the phosphate media it seemed to help for a few...

I have 4 marvelous yoyo loaches you cleared my 75g tank of snails in just a few weeks. Unfortunately, my filter is lousy with them. I guess it doesn't really matter, but is there any way to get rid of them, short of taking the filter offline for an extended period of time?

I came home from three days away last night just in time for the 8pm automatic feeding. My biggest angel was being frisky and chasing the other fish away from the food (not standard behavior). I turned my back, heard some splashing and saw my blue gourami on the floor of my living room...

Picked up a pair of gold gouramis at my local Petsmart yesterday and noticed this morning that one of them appears to have an immobile pectoral fin. It just seems to be sticking out and not moving at all. That should be an instant return, right?

Is this algae or just natural dirt/muck? If algae, any ideas how to clean it off my ornaments/fake plants without taking them out of the aquarium? Hard to scrub the plants. I have a blue lobster in the tank so none of the anti-algae treatments I have seen are safe. Thanks!

I have the most timid blue lobster you have ever seen. He spent the better part of 4 months hidden under a large piece of mopani driftwood, only poking his claws out once in a while to grab some dried shrimp. I recently removed the driftwood and provided him with a cave to live in, but he...

I just added 4 angels to a 75g tank that were purchased from Liveaquaria.com (2 blue, 1 black veil, 1 half black). One of the blues went straight to the bottom and didnt move much, and has now settled in a spot near an ornament and is not moving much. The other three are very active and...

I bought a hydor h2show poseidon and before I put it in my tank I have to ask this silly question: At the top and bottom on the back there are hard gummy adhesive pieces that attached it to the back of the box. When I pulled it out, some of the cardboard came with it. Not the adhesive is not...

More specifically, 2 Boesemani females, 2 Turquoise Males and 1 Turquoise Female. Any thoughts?

I recently gave up on live plants. I thought some of them were growing like weeds until I found out that many popular aquarium plants are actually considered weeds in the real world! Anyway, I bought a few decent looking (or so I thought) fakies and have been disappointed that they dont seem...

I have a 75g tank with 4 yoyo loaches (2-3 inches) and 5 angel fish (also 2-3 inches) and would like to add some colorful tankmates. I had my heart set on some dwarf gouramis, but it seems like they wouldn't get along well with the angels. Any advice on what species I can add to get some...

Anyone know what would cause three males to die (they all turned yellow, then died within a few days of each other) that would not effect the 2 females (or any tankmates) at all? I want to add some males back, but am hesitant until I can figure something out. Thanks!

I have a 75g freshwater community tank that currently has 1 angel in it that seems to be doing well. I was originally going to build out the tank with other freshwater fish and had read that if you were going to have less than 5-6, then you needed to have just one, so that's what I did. I have...